[Sky] Man Utd yet to speak to other candidates for permanent manager position in boost for current head coach

**Key points of the article:**

* Sky Sports News understands **they have still not made contact with any other potential candidates.**
* **The overriding feeling is there is no need to rush into a decision** when the team is performing so well.
* Carrick’s record (…) led to calls for him to be appointed head coach now.
* But the United powerbrokers will continue to ignore those calls, until such time as they are convinced Carrick is the right man to take the club forward long-term.
* **If United decide to appoint someone else, they are determined that it will be a manager of stature and experience, who can cope with the magnitude of the job and the media scrutiny**

This isn’t good.

We should’ve been having these initial conversations already. Nothing concrete but just sounding out interest.

Securing Champions League football would essentially turn Carrick from an interim solution into the frontrunner for the United job .

Of course they haven’t, Carrick was the perm manager the moment he signed up in Jan. It means the board don’t have to do their job and work hard to prise a best in class manager out of their current club (ie Enrique). Carrick is cheap and will do as he’s told, it’s just a massive bonus for the board that he’s been doing well.

Secure CL. Then interview. I will be disappointed if there are no interviews regardless of who gets the job.

I imagine it’s cos the other candidates currently have jobs.

Personally I’m of the opinion that if Lucho is available, it should be him. If not, keep Carrick.

Honestly, Carrick deserves the full time role and I don’t care who is available/unavailable.

We’re in this predicament because fans cried loud, hard, and unfairly so about Ole before a ball was kicked in his final season demanding things like a title run even though Arteta was performing poorer and yet the club did right by him and didn’t cave. Plus he had a board that actually signed the players he wanted rather than a Woodward buzzing around making pointless club signings like Telles, Van De Beek, Fred, Pellestri, Amad (great now but not what was required at all at the time), Cavani etc etc and then panic buying Ronaldo because he threatened to move to City like a proper club legend.

Now here we are where they are terrified of history repeating – which would be a fucking huge improvement of where we’ve been in the league since Ole – and they’re in a flap.

Believe me, the juju will return if Carrick leaves and we’ll be in a cycle of:

* Carrick finishing in 3rd ***in spite of*** Amorim’s sloth-like start and haemorrhaging results
* Carrick losing his job even though he’s done it perfectly well and we lose the unit of Carrick/Holland/Woodgate and/or keep some Frankenstein version of it for “continuity”
* Tuchel/whatever “big name manager” comes in who doesn’t get the club but we squeeze out some good initial results
* The inevitable happens – whatever way you read this should tell you everything you need to know – if your mind went to “shit, not this again” then you know it’s happening, in the unlikely event you thought I meant “we’ll inevitably charge for the title” – wow. Pure delusion.
* We end up in another cycle of “if only we had kept this manager on” and the club will feel that they absolutely can’t go back to Carrick

Keep him, he’s doing great, the structure may not be perfect but fuck me is it not a 500% improvement on what Ole had to work with, and back this man and the people around him to build a team that plays like Manchester United.

Surely March break is the time to contact club managers.

People are so quick to pick up arms but in reality no serious manager is going to entertain such conversations during the business end of the season and it’s WC year for current national team managers too. None of the currently unemployed bunch really excite me other than maybe Xabi but it’s very likely we see him at Anfield soon